- Jan 2025
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www.powells.com www.powells.com
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Philip Kitcher makes a provocative proposal: Instead of conceiving ethical commands as divine revelations or as the discoveries of brilliant thinkers, we should see our ethical practices as evolving over tens of thousands of years, as members of our species have worked out how to live together and prosper. Elaborating this radical new vision, Kitcher shows how the limited altruistic tendencies of our ancestors enabled a fragile social life, how our forebears learned to regulate their interactions with one another, and how human societies eventually grew into forms of previously unimaginable complexity. The most successful of the many millennia-old experiments in how to live, he contends, survive in our values today.
pushes virtue ethics and natural law ethics aside for a more evolutionary view of ethics enabling societal conviviality it seems. I sense a link to Dennett's culture as evolution and speeding up evolution, and to networked agency. Perhaps also the Latour's ANT? Link w the relational ethics in AI work C did?
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Philip Kitcher, The Ethical Project This is a very substantial book which attempts to re-cast the nature and history of ethics as a form of "social technology", aimed at remedying "altruism failures", and generally moving humanity beyond the kind of social life endured by other primates — nasty, poor, and brutish, but not solitary. (Though he doesn't mention it, this is almost an inversion of Brecht's line "grub first, then ethics".) The guiding stars are Dewey (especially Human Nature and Conduct), John Stuart Mill (especially On Liberty and The Subjection of Women), and modern work on the evolution of cooperation. Kitcher builds from here to an examination of what counts as ethical progress, appropriate method and substance for meta-ethics, and appropriate method and recommendations for actual substantive ethics at the present day. The latter are strongly egalitarian, and not just founded on the "expanding circle" of empathy notion.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250103085440/http://bactra.org/weblog/algae-2011-11.html#kitcher
[[The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher]] here said to posit ethics as 'social technology' as response to 'altruism failures' (?responses showing it was undeserved), allowing a diff social life as other primates / animal groups. An ethics for networked agency perhaps? http://www.columbia.edu/~psk16/
- [ ] explore book [[The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher]] http://www.powells.com/partner/27627/biblio/9780674061446 #pkm #10mins
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- Dec 2024
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writing.bobdoto.computer writing.bobdoto.computer
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Reinforces the communal nature of knowledge workAll ideas are in communication with and informed by others, regardless of whether we work in direct collaboration with others. A collaborative zettelkasten not only shows this in real time, but allows participants to actively engage with a collective web of insight.
This is key imo. The link between personal knowledge and communal K. In context of TGL it also means fleshing out the purpose, identity and intent of our work. A step to and in support of [[Networked Agency 20160818213155]] , here the functioning as a company Can I express this to the team?
This is a benefit that Doto does not express (because he stays within the context of ZK, and this one becomes apparent if you look at the ZK in the context of the group of collab. Any non-random and pre-existing group will find theur benefit in that context, rather than in the instrument's built-in affordances. tech+issue=value.
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- Sep 2024
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www.anildash.com www.anildash.com
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Later, many of the people who checked in on me that day, who'd been those "imaginary" online friends, became the people who introduced me to my wife, who greeted my child, who held me when I grieved, who rejoiced as we built careers and lives together.
Anil Dash in a #2001/09/11 remembrance post describing how online 'imaginary' friends became a core part of his social life over time. This is true for me/us too, and I think something tied to that time of early blogging and the meet-ups and events that emerged from it. Vgl [[Building community out of strangers – Tracy Durnell]] and [[Nancy White]]'s birthday party in Seatlle in '08 when her neighbours greeted me as 'ooh you're one of her imaginary friends'
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- Jun 2024
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jentery.github.io jentery.github.io
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https://web.archive.org/web/20240611050132/https://jentery.github.io/ts200v2/notes.html
An interesting read turning a range of #psts issues into specific reflection questions to ask at the start of a tech project. With references to the background concepts. From 2018. #toread
Vgl [[Techpledge 20190917062614]] as the 'political' phrasing of same.
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- May 2024
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hamishcampbell.com hamishcampbell.com
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Hamish Campbell on a '4 opens framework', which seems to be opennes, transparency, collaboration and decentralisation, to enable improvements in empowerment, equity and justice, community building, sustainability. Sounds like a cross between [[Networked Agency 20160818213155]] and [[Open Definition 20201004114932]]
Hmm, same author at https://www.reddit.com/user/openmedianetwork/comments/1aoyruz/the_4opens_framework_provides_a_set_of_principles/ names them in Feb 2024 as #opendata, #opensource, #openstandards and #openprocess.
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- Jan 2024
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wittenbrink.net wittenbrink.net
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Bei Web2.0 und dessen Einfluss auf ‚local resilience‘ ist es logisch das lokale Themen, lokale politische Strukturen wichtig sind, so soll es auch sein
In this comment by Heinz I mention local resilience on #2009/05/26
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wiredvanity.substack.com wiredvanity.substack.com
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A Denial of Future Attack is about the overwhelming influx of information that paralyzes decision-making, particularly regarding actions crucial for shaping future outcomes. Unlike a Denial of Service attack, which targets digital infrastructure, a DoFA targets the human mind’s capacity to process information and make decisions.
A DoFA is swamping someone/a process with so much information (fake, true or whatever) so that it stalls proper decision making. DoFA targets people's agency by hobbling information processing and thus obstructing decision making. Misinfo/desinfo campaigns then are a form of DDoF. Examples given also suggest a DoFA may succeed if there is only a hint of misinfo/fakery, making all information suspect. Vgl [[Reverse Turing menszijn bewijs vaker nodig 20230505100459]]
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- Nov 2023
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wiredvanity.substack.com wiredvanity.substack.com
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The extent to which we're willing to go to mitigate the impacts of our lifestyle choices is astonishing.
This one makes sense to me. Mitigating symptoms of life style choices, rather than addressing those choices. At the lower socio-economic end because you don't have many options (smoking as only affordable relaxation e.g.), and at the higher end because the choices are what yields the higher socio-economic status, and the mitigation signals that status, and adds to it, helps define it, an aesthetic choice in Bourdieu's fashion (distinction theory / [[Goede smaak is klassebewustzijn 20220212075212]]. Still individual coping rather than facing the systemic factors causing them or organising [[Networked Agency 20160818213155]] in the face of it.
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- Sep 2022
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branch.climateaction.tech branch.climateaction.tech
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But the library? In this country, they’re oases in a desert of social infrastructure. In many regions they’re more than functional, people rely on them. It’s part of their routine. It’s a safe haven for anyone, literally anyone, to use.
Libraries are community centers, public infrastructure. Vgl the networked agency work with Fers regional libraries in Fryslan "Impact Through Connection" https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2017/03/more-fun-than-annual-class-trip-making-at-school-some-first-observations/
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- Aug 2022
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theinformed.life theinformed.life
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And then the last one was network awareness. We live in a networked world, and understanding how networks work enables you to have a richer relationship with what’s going on online.
Just mentioned in passing. To me this is a key one, especially as networks is where the human and digital fully overlap / become the same. Humans are intuitively good at networks of humans, digital networks present the same structures over which those people interact with their human networks. [[Menselijk en digitaal netwerk zijn gelijksoortig 20200810142551]] It's where the potential of distributedness is at, as well as the unit of agency, human digital networks. Should better detail this, as it is key in my [[Networked Agency 20160818213155]]
The networked bit can strengthen the other 4 literacies, if projected onto them. E.g. my infostrats, based on social filtering, help determine signal, show what's going on in different areas, help decide what warrants attention etc.
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